Thanks

Let the iPhone kiddies have their fun. Eventually all the glamor of the iPhone wears off, and they have to jailbreak the sucker, and even THEN you are still limited.

In the meantime, I’ll be sitting back and enjoying my Jabra BT8010 stereo bluetooth streaming internet radio via coreplayer.

Besides, why bother even comparing the two. The only thing the iphone has going for it is that it’s not running a windows mobile OS

I disagree, I found the article very informative. It completely disects the Ads that APPLE themselves are running implying how great their device is. And it very well could be for some groups of people as you point out. But keep in mind this is a WinMo site and that is the angle EVERYTING we do here is written on.

As for making us look like jackasses, I completely disagree. Enormous energy went into this article and this site. David has worked incredibly hard to help our community. Posts where opinions are supported with facts such as this in no way underminds the WinMo community, just enhances it. It’s too bad someone pissed in your cherios today and you had leave comment like that.

Stop trying to make it sound like windows mobile users are all the smartest *ADMIN EDIT* around while iphone users are dumb apes. It pisses me off because the few dumb people who say this *ADMIN EDIT* makes the rest of us look like jackasses.

(don’t be mad)

Yes. But the people you describe are not the iPhone target market. They are the WinMob target market. WinMob phone were the first smartphones (?!) that corporate IT types approved when they didn’t want to install blackberry servers (at least in the US). Now, everyone – everyone HATES their corporate IT guy, because they mostly say: “No.”

The iPhone is the anti-corporate IT guy phone. It’s about music and pictures and, well, if you can do a little bit of work on it, maybe you can get reimbursed for your purchase. The iPhone is the “stick it up your corporate arse” phone. WinMob just isn’t that market segment.

More importantly, WinMob is an OS (just the guts), the iPhone is a complete being (redheaded, stacked, athletic – whatever you prefer). An OS cannot act in the market place as can a complete product. Here in the States – and I guess around the world – HTC is the would be power brand WinMob phone. But HTC ISN’T WinMob, M$ is. And there are others: Toshiba, Asus, Garmin… So there is no one phone that IS the WinMob icon, like there is the iPhone to be the sole representative of OSX mobile or whatever they call it.

So, while we’re all frustrated that our style-conscious friends pray at the altar of the Jesus-phone and don’t realize the fuller abilities of our WinMob devices – that’s just the only way it can be…

…until the M$ laptop ads tie to the WinMob App store and that ties to a whole world of phones to choose from, regardless of your carrier. But Redmond isn’t internally coordinated enough to figure that stuff out.